Rebecca Koenig

How a ‘mom-student’ created a community to help her stay — and succeed — in college.

Swashbuckling into an acting career, shielded by a college degree.

Companies selling admissions algorithms say they have a fairer, more scientific way to predict student success. The pitch: use deeper technology to make admissions more deeply human.

Adults encourage teenagers who may struggle to afford college to consider alternative routes to adulthood — often specifically to a solid paycheck. But young people want more than good livelihoods. They want good lives.

“I’ve never seen an administration, a staff, an agency so supportive of programming for its incarcerated residents. I think they’re a model of what corrections officials around the country should be.”

In the pandemic, strangers have been gathering on Zoom to read and discuss Homer, Virginia Woolf and bell hooks. No grades involved, no credit — and no universities. The humanities are fleeing campus. Where does that leave academia?